Williamstown has added some much needed depth to its tall ranks after the signing of a former AFL player.<\/p>\n
The Seagulls announced that former AFL journeyman Braydon Preuss would join the Victorian Football League club for next season. <\/p>\n
Preuss is the first new signing for the Seagulls.<\/p>\n
The 207cm ruck began his AFL career with North Melbourne before spending time at Melbourne and the Greater Western Sydney Giants.<\/p>\n
He played 28 games across the three clubs, the last of those games in 2022.<\/p>\n
Taking a step back from AFL and VFL altogether, he spent this year with the Yarragon Panthers in the Ellinbank and District Football League, playing 16 games and kicking 37 goals.<\/p>\n
Williamstown football operations general manger Ash Collins said the addition of Preuss has brought plenty of excitement to the club during this period of player movement.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve seen through his AFL experience that Braydon is a very capable ruckman and we\u2019re delighted to have him join us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has a hunger to return to high-level football and we believe Williamstown offers the ideal environment to relaunch his career.<\/p>\n
\u201cBraydon will step into the role vacated by retiring ruckman Tom Downie and become a player our younger group can look up to. We can\u2019t wait to see him get to work in the blue and gold.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ben Kennedy, Ned Pendergast, Cam Polson, Aidan Bonar and Zac Pritchard have all re-signed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Williamstown has added some much needed depth to its tall ranks after the signing of a former AFL…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-213379","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-afl","8":"tag-afl","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-australian-football-league","12":"tag-australianfootballleague","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}